Understanding & Evaluating The Four Pillars of Community Schools
What are community schools? Why should I consider this model? This resource provides an overview of the Four Pillars of Community Schools framework, s…
Component: Step 4: Transform
As the impacts from steps one through three become visible, you can begin to focus on the mindset shifts and the systemic work that create results for students and changes adult behaviors and schoolwide structures. This allows for changes to any inequitable system and structures, and directly addressing barriers to success in the school.
Foster Relationships and Cooperative Learning: Adopt Block Scheduling At Your School
Block scheduling is better for fostering and nurturing relationships for both teacher to student, as well as student to student relationships.
Create a Learning Progression for Measuring Student Outcomes
The Novice–Expert Continuum is a unique framework that captures the evolution of students’ learning processes as they progress from following proc…
Defining SEL Outcomes: Develop Goals for Schoolwide SEL
This tool will help the SEL team develop and document goals for schoolwide SEL implementation and outcomes using the SMARTIE goal-setting process.
Rethinking Schoolwide Schedules: Build a School Day That Prioritizes People
An effective master schedule is so much more than making sure the bells ring on time. It not only sets the pace for the school and community, but it c…
9 Steps to Establishing a District Family Engagement Team
There is growing recognition, grounded in research, that effective family engagement can contribute to improved student outcomes and to closing persis…
Starting the New Year Connected: Strategies for Connecting With and Engaging All Students
During this January 11, 2023, Crowdsource Coffee, leaders discussed how to identify students who feel disconnected from their community. We brainstorm…
Exceptional Situations, Exceptional Students: Networks to Support Students in Intensive Circumstances
The academic and behavioral needs of most students are met through a continuum of support within a school. Some students, however, require out-of-syst…
Teacher Burnout: Addressing Educator Exhaustion
Educator (and support staff) exhaustion is nothing new, though it has arguably accelerated exponentially over the past few years with no signs of slow…
Student Experience Survey: Measuring Belonging, Connection, Engagement
Let’s move away from an environment where kids are sorted, packaged, and labeled based on the perceptions of adults that barely knew them. Readiness…
